Sunday 26 June
Bojangles
Carla and Richard
Sun 26 Jun 2011 17:38
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46:55N and 16:07W
The wind veered to the West overnight and has since
gone to the North 350 to 0 degrees and from what we can gather it is due to stay
like this for about 24 hours. This means that we are likely to be on this tack
at a heading of 060 for that time, this is good as that is the course we need to
Falmouth yaaayyy! At the moment the wind is 8 - 10 knots enabling us a
speed of 5 - 6 knots. It is likely to increase over night. We are giving
ourselves a gentle pat on the back for managing to avoid the holes and
positioning ourselves so that we should make it back on one tack (holding
my breath again, I am going to stop breathing soon if I keep making comments
like that!)
We have been very lucky with the weather on this
trip so that even if it rained the rest of the time we still would have had a
good run (please don't!) I say that it has been spitting for the last few hours
and does not look like it will be stopping anytime soon... Hence why I am
spending a good deal of my time down below and every now and then popping my
head up to check everything is ok on deck. It is times like this that I cannot
explain the relief of having the autohelm working (I would now be on deck soaked
through asking myself why any sane person goes offshore racing). I am even
contemplating having a little read of my book in a bit (surely not, there must
be something more useful I could be doing?!)
I hope everyone at home is enjoying a nice roast
dinner tonight...we are having Cumbrian lamb hotpot (from a
packet).
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